Monday, June 20, 2011 | Categories: Books |
In June, Michael hosted an event at the Toronto Reference Library as part of Luminato's "Modern-Day Shahrazads" program, where he spoke with the Pulitzer...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 | Categories: Books |
It was like finding a fossil in rock when Joan Thomas stumbled on the subject of her second book. The Winnipeg novelist was researching...
Friday, June 3, 2011 | Categories: Books |
The Picture of Dorian Gray, is Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde's, only novel. The title character is a young man with the face of an...
Monday, May 30, 2011 | Categories: Books |
For most of us, he looked like Peter O'Toole. We think of him as Lawrence of Arabia, and imagine him dressed as a Bedouin...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 | Categories: Books |
Theirs was a whirlwind romance...they were married three months after they met. She was 22, innocent and inexperienced. It was a storybook marriage..."as measured...
Sunday, April 17, 2011 | Categories: Books |
At first glance, the central character in the novel, Everything Was Goodbye, is like any other callow teenage girl - rebellious, self-absorbed, and preoccupied...
Sunday, March 27, 2011 | Categories: Books |
Debbo Mitford was the last of seven children - one of a brood of six sisters and a brother - born to the Baron...
Sunday, March 6, 2011 | Categories: Books |
The bare bones of this story have the makings of a mini series. A seven-year-old girl is captured by Indians and taken to live...
Sunday, January 2, 2011 | Categories: Books |
Next to the Bible and Shakespeare, Agatha Christie is the world's best-known and best-selling writer. A billion of her books have been sold in...
Sunday, December 26, 2010 | Categories: Books |
On Nov. 22, 1963, the American president, John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in an open car in a motorcade through downtown Dallas....